is estimated that about £200 will be realised from the list», irhioh, of course, is m addition to tho amounts rooeivod and promised, ao that probably the amount raised by tlio oxorlions of tho Sydnuy comrmltco will not bo far short of £700 Tho Stockton list is separate from that issued by tho Sydney comrailtoo, and a number of city pcoplo sont their subscription« direct to Stockton, othor wmo the amount raised by tho 8ydnoy eomrmttco wonld have beon considerably largor

HoärrTAi, Satutuiay Fund -Tlio monthly moot- ing of tho Hospital Siturday Tnnd committee was held in one of tho rooms at tho Town Hall yesterday afternoon It vv is d-cidcd to ask tho amateur bands of the city and suburbs to gil o musical performances on or about Hospital Satur- day (May 1) in aid of tho fund

Recaptured Prisioners -Michael Tabolo and George Smith, the two prisoners who escaped from tho escort in the vicinity of Moree during last week, and were subsequently recaptured by the police, were brought to Sydney yesterday and locked up at tho Central Police Station pending their removal to Moree

Litt Accnh t-A yoting namod Trank It Jones met with u serious accident jesterdaj at the Now Zealand I,oan Company's stores Tholifo in whioh ho win u-sronding uppearod to bo going too ripidl), and ho brought it to n sudden standstill, with the lenult that he was thrown out mid severe]) crushed llroken ribs, iojurics to his shoulders, two scalp wounds, aud a possible fracturo at tho baso of the skull woro tho conacquence8 of his fall

Aocim-TAr Dkaths-Tho City Coroner (Mr J C Woore, sT P ) yesterday held magisterial inquiries into tho circumstnucos surrounding tho deaths of James Doming (20), and Ilonry Britton (19) It will bo romoirbered that the former fell fiom a duly vvlnlo ho was driving through Crystal-street, rctcrt-ham, on Thursday, and was so severely lujured by ii blow from a piece of timber which projected from tho dray that ho subsequently succumbed at l'nnco Alfred Hospital llnllon, who was ssiibiect to fits, was uro» ned alter fallinsr fiom the edge of tho water at Edward street, Pyrmont A finding of acci-

600 Georg, «treet to meet the no essitics of hi« husmc«! the architect fir the work is Mr E Itolaiul Halloran, ITA, and the contractors

Mcvsrs Adamson and Dow

In another column the ntmiunctincut is wadu that .li oilRinerring and an cleetnral exhibition will bo leid in hi ilncj in J uno next \ y i hellions for spica will i ot tie received frrni mtcu lint; exhibitois alter

flio Local Opt on Lcijzuq and tho toraporanco crgam'utious woikiug with it 1 no beslniHi m tho aatter of the loi/il option ?».otc wh eh is lo bo taken tcii) in nU tho mumcíp ilitios ra tbo colony except Sjdaej It is oxpected thnt thoro will be a heavier poll than on tho list occisión